While former President Donald Trump’s policies and rhetoric have regularly antagonized the LGBTQ+ community, a small but vocal contingent of LGBTQ+ individuals have publicly supported the former president nonetheless, citing reasons that range from economic policies to personal admiration for his stance against political correctness. These endorsements challenge the assumption that LGBTQ+ voters are universally aligned with progressive politics, highlighting the diversity of political thought (and prejudices) within the community.
Below are 10 LGBTQ+ public figures who have endorsed Trump, each with a unique relationship to him, ranging from financial backing to active participation in his campaigns.
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Scott Bessent
Scott Bessent, an openly gay American investor and founder of Key Square Group, has a long history of political involvement, donating an estimated $10 million to $15 million to Republicans. He is reportedly on Trump’s shortlist for Treasury secretary, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Bessent literally ran to join Trump onstage at an August 14 rally in Asheville, North Carolina, after Trump called him “one of the most brilliant men on Wall Street.” In his brief comments, Bessent said, “Look, this is a Trump economy. This is a Trump stock market,” implying that the economy is thriving in anticipation of Trump winning in November.
“At the end of the day, Donald Trump wants to have a good economy, and he won’t do anything to take the economy off the cliff,” Bessent told Barrons.
Sophia Hutchins
Sophia Hutchins is the young transgender manager of right-wing trans conservative Caitlyn Jenner. Hutchins has distanced herself from the broader LGBTQ+ community, describing herself as a proud Roman Catholic and MAGA conservative.
Hutchins has worked for the transphobic right-wing media outlet Fox News and is a board member of the Log Cabin Republicans, a self-proclaimed group for LGBTQ+ conservatives that actively opposes transgender civil rights.
Sophia endorsed Trump during the 2023 Republican primaries and attended the victory celebration after he won the January 15 Iowa caucuses, taking photos with some of Trump’s inner circle.
Caitlyn Jenner
Caitlyn Jenner, who came out as transgender in 2015, is an American media personality and former Olympic gold medalist who nonetheless opposes allowing trans athletes to partake in competitive sports.
Though she claimed to vote for Trump in the 2016 presidential election, that may have been a lie. In October 2018, she withdrew her support of Trump — saying he “relentlessly attacked” the trans community by rolling back protections for trans students and banning trans people from the U.S. military.
“I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans,” the transgender millionaire said. In 2021, she said, “Obviously I would support” Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. In a May 1 Instagram post, Jenner endorsed Trump, writing, “We had world peace, unity, and law and order under President Trump!”
Azealia Banks
In November 2023, bisexual rapper Azealia Banks endorsed Trump because voting for President Joe Biden, she said, was “elder abuse.” She has continued to support Trump even after Biden dropped out of the presidential race.
When she endorsed Trump, she said she thinks he’s “funny,” said she’ll be voting for him in 2024, and added, “He’s been through how many bankruptcies? How many wives? How many television shows? Seriously, nothing can take him down.”
Banks has called gay men “fa***t” in the past and has made disparaging comments about transgender people, said she feels “way safer” in red states than in blue states because more people have guns. She used to live in California and now lives in Florida. In July 2024, she was spotted at a Trump rally in Miami, Florida.
Blaire White
Blaire White — a conservative transgender YouTuber and political commentator with over 1.5 million YouTube followers and over 556,000 Instagram followers — told The Hill in August 2024, “There’s a million reasons why I’m supporting Donald Trump in this election.” She said one of the biggest reasons she has endorsed Trump is to oppose the media’s support of his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
“We have an entirety of the corporate press that’s stacked against Donald Trump,” she said. “Just on principle … I don’t want to live in a world where we have the media completely constructing a reality and setting the window of accepted thought. So for me, a vote for Trump is a vote just against the media.”
White gained notoriety in November 2017 when she recorded an assault she experienced after crossing a police line meant to separate Trump supporters from anti-Trump protestors in Los Angeles, California. Before this, she became notorious for her right-leaning YouTube videos criticizing feminists, “social justice warriors,” the media, as well as other trans or gender-nonconforming people, Newsweek reported. She considers gender-affirming care for minors as a form of child abuse.
Amber Rose
Amber Rose, a bisexual model and media personality who once organized a massive SlutWalk through New York City as a protest against misogynist street harassment, endorsed Trump via Instagram in May 2024. She posted a picture featuring herself, Trump, and former First Lady Melania Trump at a black-tie fundraiser with the caption, “Trump 2024 